Chaplain Grey Knight Termie Squad

This is my update showing WIPs of the work on the Grey Knight termie squad with a Chaplain (count as Brother Captain).

I'm pleased with the skull and the gold effects I've done, but the bone, scrollwork and metal effects need some work but they will come. The areas painted white will have OSL effects so I beg you to ignore the look of them.

So here is the entire squad, the rest of the squad is nowhere near finished, but just wanted to show the metal effects and the contrast of the chaplain between himself and his brethren.

I like painting my units by painting them one at a time, it breaks the monotony of large armies, but people have their own methods, so it's up to you.

Method for painting my Grey Knights:

1. Black Undercoat, I feel it works better for metallics than a grey or a white or a hybrid basecoat.
2. Vallejo model air Gun metal is sprayed as the "basecoat".
3. Vallejo model air Chrome is then sprayed from above, with some extra attention paid to raised areas like the back of the legs on running minis.
4. Coat of Gloss Varnish, will seal the metallics and allow a good flow for the wash coat, allow to dry for 24 hours.
5. Pro-modeller black wash is sprayed on (review up later).
6. Once dry use a damp piece of kitchen paper to "buff up" the metal and remove the black wash from the areas not in shadow and leaving the black in the recesses.
7. Coat of matt varnish again allow to dry for a while.

I will have a photo tutorial on grey knights for the Grand Master who I will paint next week.

My Alpha Legion desert infiltration unit.

As always thanks for looking.

Small Grey Knights update.

Today I did some work on the terminator chaplain/ grey knight kit-bash, putting some GS into the gap where they meet and using an armour plate to tie both of the elements together. To get a 100% seamless transition I should have sculpted the whole upper torso myself...but that is a bit beyond me ATM.

So here he is (lighting isn't at all perfect on my desk)

So now I have to get onto the arms, I am also considering adding an incense burner from the Dark Angel upgrade sprue, I will decide on that later though as I don't want it to get too crowded.

I received the landraider commission, but due to a dedfective gw primer problem up on the commissioner's side I also had to strip it. I also received the dark arts miniatures bases which I will do a photo review of, as well as a set of gk landraider doors. On my own landraider, the forgeworld extra armour is slowly driving me mad, it doesn't fit the armour, the landraider doors, don't fit the armour, I've had to cut it and bend it to get it somewhere near finished. I should however finish it tomorrow evening, but a source of annoyance.

Also with the spare GS I did some work on a space marine who will be part of my next project after the Grey Knights. Alpharius, I will be using up the pre-heresy parts from my failed ultramarines project for a force bases around the tyrant legion rule-set with alpha legion instead of astral claws.

                                                       

As always thanks for looking.

Commissions

I do alot of work with hybrid methods of airbrush, brush work, pigments and other weathering effects and you can see my general standard in pictures below as well as testimonials.

If you are interested please send me a message to starforgedminiatures@gmail.com  or add me on skype at starforged.miniatures and I will try to get back to you as soon as I can with more walloftext™.

Itry to achieve the best customer service possible, giving a time of about 2 week turn around for an army but I prefer to give photographic updates of the progress and 4 weeks after receiving models is my deadline.

I will give you a quote on how much it will cost you to commission me, prices will vary from one scheme to another and I leave some negotiation on all prices.

Testimonials:

"Amazing!, using only a few paintbrushes and paints Starforged has turned this model into a fantastic representation of Khorne's murderous wrath. Amazing. A Satisfied Customer."


Aneirin.


"I requested Starforged to paint the Marneus Calgar in Power armour.
I requested a mixture of old school Ultramarine and less gold on the figure, as I much prefer the ornateness of bone to gold.
This led to a smooth and solid transition from dark blue up to the lighter colour that Ultramarines should be in my opinion. As I also requested there is little weathering/battle damage on the model as I personally prefer the crisp clean look, but in some areas, mainly the bone and gold, there is a good level of ageing to these part.
All if all I am very happy and pleased with the way they managed to use my rough requests and turn it into something awesome."

Terran


"Starforged miniatures work on my Brother Captain stern miniature was excellent, the red cloak and trim was very deep and the metallics very realistic, they are a good painting company and offer a brilliant service."


Thanks.


Sakura.

Grey Knights project.

Hi just a small update, but the grey knight project is gaining some momentum.

So this is the entire sum of the army so far (list below) I am currently waiting on the Psycannon upgrade from fw, another grey knights Landraider (a commission for a friend), a set of fw Landraider doors and an incinerator carrying grey knight from said friend, the gw grey knight choppy arm set to replace the arms lost in combat. So everything you see built has been pinned to remove any chance of breaking without excessive force. There is a grey knight chaplain conversion (who is rumoured to be one of the new gk hq choices) which I have converted by kitbashing a grey knight who I filled off all the symbols off ages ago and the terminator chaplain torso, the match isn't perfect, I need some gs to fill some gaps on him, but I am quite pleased with the imposing nature of him. 

Again this will be the scheme, when I'm ready with the painting a tutorial should go up as well as a review of the promodeller washes.

I also have some darkartminiatures infested bases to try out, which will be interesting as a possible choice for basing my army, I may submit a review of these too.

List (the second landraider will be a commission so isn't included)

1 Grey Knight Grand Master (HQ) @ 175 Pts

     Nemesis Force Halberd; Psycannon

     #Terminator Armour [0]

3 Grey Knight Terminators (Elites) @ 229 Pts

     Nemesis & Storm Bolter (x3)

     1 Grey Knight Brother-Captain @ [91] Pts

          Daemonhammer; Storm Bolter

          #Terminator Armour [0]

3 Grey Knight Terminators (Elites) @ 254 Pts

     Nemesis & Incinerator (x1); Nemesis & Storm Bolter (x2)

     1 Chaplain (Grey Knight Brother-Captain) @ [101] Pts

          Nemesis Force Halberd; Storm Bolter

          #Terminator Armour [0]

          Holy Relic [30]

          Unguents of Warding [10]

4 Grey Knights (Troops) @ 170 Pts

     Incinerator (x1); Nemesis & Storm Bolter

     1 Grey Knight Justicar @ [60] Pts

          Teleport Homer; Nemesis & Storm Bolter

4 Grey Knights (Troops) @ 170 Pts

     Incinerator (x1); Nemesis & Storm Bolter

     1 Grey Knight Justicar @ [60] Pts

          Teleport Homer; Nemesis & Storm Bolter

3 Grey Knights Purgation Squad (Heavy Support) @ 215 Pts

     Psycannon (x3); Nemesis & Storm Bolter

     1 Grey Knight Justicar @ [50] Pts

          Nemesis & Storm Bolter

1 Grey Knight Land Raider (Heavy Support) @ 280 Pts

     #Power of the Machine Spirit; Extra Armour; TL Lascannon (x2); TL Heavy

     Bolters

     Psycannon Bolts [10]

     Sacred Hull [15]

Models in Army: 24

Total Army Cost: 1493

Thanks for looking.